A theatrical version of Initial D is confirmed for release in August 2014. [Official Thread]

UPDATES : Animax has confirmed that Final Stage will be available on its subscription-based VOD (Video On Demand) service starting May 16th, 2014. It will continue where Fifth Stage left off. Consist of a total of four episodes, Final Stage will be focusing on the long-awaited final 86 vs 86 battle between Takumi and Shinji. [confirmed]

UPDATES : Avex has confirmed that the New Initial D The Movie will be a trilogy. First part of the trilogy is called Legend 1 -Awakening- slated for release in theaters on August 23rd, 2014 (Japan Only) [confirmed]

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Haha, looks like I didn't need to PM you and Tessou Thanks Perry, I wanna post a screenshot of the final episode but I know it will stir up the drama of the internet. So I will wait for everyone to watch and post spoiler tags!!!

Okay this part got to me and I knew exactly what Mako is crying about, Ive felt this before watching the Pro's race at the track, amazing happy feeling. It was really cool seeing Shinji reaction seeing Mako cry and made him want to race.

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Thanks again so much Perry and all the subs that helped with stage 6!!!

So this is how Fifth Stage ends. With a title card for the big race they advertised but ultimately never showed anything of.

Hahahaha. This is hilarious. Fifth Stage messed up its ending like I'd have never expected, but I guess it was only natural with how they were rushing through everything.

What? Did they only have enough of a budget for 14 episodes or something?

Rush yes they even cut all the good bit from manga and the character design is awful at time... but the main reason it only have 14 ep is because shuichi shigeno could not decide the ending to Takumi vs Shinji race...

I liked both episodes in that they didn't rush the uphill race. It actually took 2.5 episodes to conclude this race, even longer than the Shinigami deathmatch. The characters seem to move more and a little more flexible. I don't really have much to complain about for the last two episodes. It was nice to hear PROJECT.D III at the very beginning of Episode 14. It got the whole scene pumped up. It's obvious they had to squeeze the last 20 seconds or so animating Shinji's 86 and Takumi's 86 going at it because they were out of time.

There were no shaking hands, introducing opponents and Ryousuke giving advice etc. So that is indeed the last episode of the season because it would be very strange to go back to the start of the race again in Episode 15. However, we didn't see any "See you again" or "Hope to see you again" sign at the very end. I suppose the title card that the "Final battle begins now" is the substitute for that. So yes, more Initial D anime will come in due time. I just hope to God they don't use the same animation studio next time. Good lord.

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I love your server, Perry. I can actually max out my downstream bandwidth downloading the episodes. I can hardly even do that with BitTorrent so props!

Gonna watch these episodes over lunch and give my final thoughts later...

It's so strong that it can handle 100+ people downloading it at the same time. I am impressed by this server sometimes.

Bullshit...but at the same time I can at least kinda believe it. I mean considering all the shit Keisuke's supposedly been able to do according to Ryousuke, once he goes into his high-tension pace someone would have to already be able to keep up with that pace to be able to follow the whole way. I mean, I've seen it myself before. You're following someone... and you feel totally pumped and you're keeping up and it's exciting... then all of a sudden you're so caught up in following that you don't notice your own limits.

I can accept that, I suppose. It's better than the bullshit Takumi pulls off.

Speaking of Takumi, in case people were wondering the last frame of episode 14 only says this:

FUJIWARA TAKUMIVSBLAHBLAHBLAH SHINJITHE FINAL BATTLE NOW BEGINS

That's it. There's no information about another series or dates or any of that shit so shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.

Personally I just don't care. Fifth Stage was garbage and if they're gonna do another one with the same level of quality then they're better of just not doing it at all.